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Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong, found that the suicide rate had dropped from 23.2 per 100,000 people in the late 1990s to 9.8 per 100,000 in 2009–11. This astonishing 58 per cent drop comes at a time of great movements from the countryside to the city, of just the same kind that South Korea saw in the recent past. And yet,...
What is a Professional Doctorate?
Education & Development

What is a Professional Doctorate?

...research skills and become champions of change within their professional areas. The programmes promote the creation and interpretation of new professional knowledge and practice, thus contributing to the development of new ideas, methods or approaches. Your professional identity as a doctoral student involves being a person who conducts research, produces a thesis and...
How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...children. Parents of talented young athletes often understand the importance of their role in supporting their child’s sporting development, but they do not always understand how to ensure that the level of commitment and support required has a positive influence (Taylor & Collins, 2015). Many factors play a part in a child’s sport experience and as a parent it can be...
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...research principles. It follows that what is known about a given scientific discipline has the potential to change with the publication of each new piece of research. The publication of new knowledge is not a given. For new knowledge to be published, it has to pass the assessment of peers working in the field (i.e. other expert scientists). Once agreed, this new knowledge...
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The Passionate Advocate
Society, Politics & Law

The Passionate Advocate

...Centre for Law at The Open University is joined by Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of the Times, to discuss the role of personality and rhetoric in the 21st century court room... Introduction: The passionate advocate A short introduction to this album. The Passionate Advocate Do you want your advocate to be passionate? And should judges be emotional? These are very important...
Grad, Div and Curl
Science, Maths & Technology

Grad, Div and Curl

...centre of the storm? Well, vector calculus holds the key. The tracks on this album introduce you to the scalar and vector fields of gradient, divergence and curl. This material makes up part of the course MST209, Mathematical methods and models... Grad, Div and Curl A short introduction to this album. Grad Introduction to this gradient vector. What is meant by 'steepness...
What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?
Science, Maths & Technology

What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?

...children were able to catch usually evasive octopuses with their bare hands; cats had convulsions and died. It was not until the 1960s that many local people became overtly ill. They had convulsions, began to stagger about and salivated excessively; deaths began to occur, including newly born children. The source of the problem was a chemical factory that was discharging...
RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes
Education & Development

RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes

...children will lose out from the demise of local authority control of education. [Anfield Boards School sign, Liverpool] Signs of the tradition of local authority support for education 1. A local champion for vulnerable children Local authorities must currently engage with parents and schools to ensure that the right provision for every child is available locally. Ensuring...